Kittling: Books

  First Lines: Prologue. Central Florida. 11,867 BCE. She was scared .   Florida's Underwater Investigation Unit did its job too well, u...

  First Lines: "Meeeooooowwwwwww!" "Sounds like Mrs. Pringle and Fluffy are early again," Anthony said, stating the obvi...

  First Line: Blackwater River State Forest. Sunday, June 14. The scream sounded human .   When Ryder Creed's scent dog, Grace, discover...

  First Line: Chicago. Frankie Russo's head was already throbbing when her cell phone started blaring salsa music .   Francine "Fra...

  First Line: " Hello, it is I, your grandson, insert name here," said Dinu .   71-year-old widow Loretta Plansky is relieved that...

  First Lines: A crescent moon casting glimmers of light onto the rolling waves of the ocean would normally be a relaxing sight to me. But n...

  First Line: Lester Darrell told his wife it wasn't safe to be on his mobile phone with all the lightning strikes .   When Ryder Creed ...

  First Line: The bow of our boat bounces across the crashing waves, sending spray and foam into the night sky .   Sloan McPherson of Florid...

  First Line: From the edge of the shore, Magda paused to look left, where the roots might catch on hair or clothing .   Over the past decad...

  First Line: Everyone is looking at me funny .   When police diver Sloan McPherson arrives at the scene of an accident in which a driver cr...

  First Line: Tony Briggs coughed up blood, then wiped his mouth with his shirtsleeve .   Mysterious deaths aren't anything new. In Chic...

  First Line: Something else is in the water . Sloan McPherson comes from a long line of Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, but sh...

First Line: Sweat slid down Amanda's back . It was never Ryder Creed's intention to wind up in the spotlight, but that's ex...

First Line: My name is Fia McKee, and I was a Baltimore City cop until that November night when I drove through West Baltimore alone . ...

First Line: The first execution I attended wasn't by lethal injection but by Old Sparky .  When her former partner , Laura Coleman,...

First Line: " Come on. Do the right thing-- again ." Savannah Webb has the perfect idea to help St. Petersburg, Florida resid...